nishiki black pine

[craigw60]

Hi Ant, I kind of agree with you. I certainly would never actively go out and seek one but this one fell into my lap so to speak. Having said that I am enjoying renovating this tree and the bark is extraordinary. I think that these trees fall into the category of potted oddity rather than convincing bonsai. Once they achieve great age then they are amazing plants
Craig

[Jarrod]

Here is some of these that were lined up on a bench. Ugly bloody things!

[craigw60]

Looks like mine has a few years to go yet. I would chuck a couple of them in my fantasy container.

[Matthew]

Jarod the bark on those things are insane

Here is my one and only nishiki . Still quite young at 15 years old but starting to bark up. bought as prestock 3 years ago. First year in a bonsai pot needles are reducing, the apex is still 2-3 years off. It was wet when i took pics so its hard to see the fissures in the bark might try again on the weekend. A mate of mine grafted this and it had only been grown in large black containers. It has been quite strong this year and has been growing on me. Final height will be around 700mm.

nishiki april 2010.JPG

nishiki branch.JPG

nishiki front base.JPG

nishiki side base.JPG

[Matthew]

a dryer pic last year branch/trunk bark

nishiki bark 2009.jpg

[craigw60]

Hi Noah, How are those beautiful highland cattle going ? Your nishiki will be much better than mine in a few years, it seems to have a really tidy graft and great trunk movement. Nice tree.
Craig

[Matthew]

Hi Noah, How are those beautiful highland cattle going ? Your nishiki will be much better than mine in a few years, it seems to have a really tidy graft and great trunk movement. Nice tree.
Craig

Craig,
those cows are getting fat alot of feed here atm. The young bull is starting to get some horns I wish i did buy more of these nishiki but a guy 2 days before i bought mine grabbed half a dozen from the same batch oh well. I think it will make a nice tree in the future once i get the apex sorted and final potting up.

[Guy]

perhaps a larger pot and leant against a decent size rock to widen the lower area

[Steven]

G'day Craig,

Did you find time to work on this beauty? I'm very interested to see how you have progressed it.

Regards,
Steven

[craigw60]

Thanks for the query Steven, this tree has just had a pretty severe hair cut so is looking a bit hen pecked at the moment. I will put a fresh pic up when the new budding starts to show and the tree is looking a little more respectable.
Craigw

[Mick B]

Craig,
You have a very good Nishiki Pine. there are probably about 20 species or so of them. In any event the reverse taper is because the Nishiki scion is grafted on to "ordinary" black pine stock. I have two in my collection. Nishiki is a tree which in Asian terms is one where you must learn to "adjust your eyes" when viewing. More over you may be able to improve the base of the tree by adjusting its angle and using small pieces of shale like material around the base to introduce the impression of root spread and stability. i am not a great user of Chat but if you wish I will try to post a picture of a Nishiki styled in such a way. Your pruning technique looks very good.
Mick B

[Beaumatsu]

I LOVE your Nishi pine i had never herd of them until now but i want one does anybody no some good places to buy them or have any stock the would like to sell.